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The proposed development combined the refurbishment of some Victorian warehouses with the construction of a modern six-storey office block behind the warehouses. [1] [2] [a] The site was assembled by the developer, Great Portland Estates, at a cost of £19 million in 2004 [5] [6] and the building was forward sold to UBS Global Asset Management for £94 million, before works started, in June 2006.
From 1856 until 1900 the lower tier of local government within the metropolis comprised various parish vestries and district boards. [4] In 1900 the lower tier was reorganised into metropolitan boroughs , three of which were Bermondsey , Camberwell and Southwark , each with a borough council.
The postcode area originated in 1857 as the SE district. In 1868 it gained some of the area of the short-lived S district, with the rest going to SW.It was divided into numbered districts in 1917, by giving the district closest to London that hosted the head office the suffix "1" and all others alphabetically based on a locally important parish, chapelry, topological or built environment ...
Old Kent Road [a] is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark.It was originally part of an ancient trackway that was paved by the Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who named it Wæcelinga Stræt (Watling Street).
Former South Eastern Railway offices at No. 84 Tooley St can be seen on the left of this photo, running parallel to the river, between it and the railway line. Tooley Street is a road in central and south London connecting London Bridge to St Saviour's Dock; it runs past Tower Bridge on the Southwark/Bermondsey side of the River Thames, and forms part of the A200 road.
Borough tube station. For several decades, Great Dover Street has been the site of mainly council tenement blocks. However, as south of the river living has become more popular, these have been supplemented on previously commercial and industrial sites on the route by private sector flats, broadening the residential nature of the area and creating a more varied mixed tenancy population.
Borough High Street continues southwest as Newington Causeway, here co-inciding with ancient Stane Street, the Roman road between London and Chichester. [2] Another important connection is with the Dover Road (the modern A2 route) which diverges in a south-east direction from Borough High Street at a junction of five roads adjacent to Borough Underground station as Great Dover Street.
Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance before London Bridge at St Mary Overie Dock.